Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Paul Wise wrote:
> Please don't ship config.guess/config.sub changes in your diff.gz,
> instead build-depend on autotools-dev, replace the files before
> calling configure and restore the original versions on clean.

What I did is this:

config.status: configure
        dh_testdir
        # Save the old config.sub & config.guess, then upgrade to more
        # recent version before starting the configure process
        mkdir -p debian/oldconfig
        cp config.sub debian/oldconfig
        cp config.guess debian/oldconfig
        cp /usr/share/misc/config.sub .
        cp /usr/share/misc/config.guess .
[..........]
clean:
	[...]
	[ ! -f debian/oldconfig/config.sub ] || cp \
		debian/oldconfig/config.sub \
		debian/oldconfig/config.guess . ; rm \
		-rf debian/oldconfig

Is that ok like this? Or should I just not backup the files, and delete
them at the clean, as Craig Small suggested (less prone to errors)?

Paul Wise wrote:
> drivers/firebird/dbd_firebird.loT needs to be removed on clean

This is not a problem any more, as the firebird API changed and that we
can't include the firebird driver unless the upstream updates its calls
and include. So that might be for next upstream release...

Paul Wise wrote:
> You might want to support noopt too.

What's that?

> I suspect (didn't check) that you are missing some copyright info
> since there are lots of upstream authors, but only one copyright
> holder.

Yes, my copyright file was really wrong, and the package was rejected by
ftp-masters. I've corrected it, but now there's a problem with the GFDL
license of the doc of libdbi. I'm now waiting for the upstream input to
know if there's some invariant parts, or if he can relicense his doc.

The rest of your post needs no comments, it's fixed in my package.
Thanks for your help once more.

Thomas